Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PCM 1 32 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. p. 2 cols. 1-2, Vo cols. 1-2: Biblical text, includes Jeremiah 41.8 (verso col. 1). Re-use (palimpsest): 2. p. 1 ll. 1-27: Love spell. |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 21.4 | Width: 16.4 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 161.) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Sheet from a codex (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 307). Fragmentary. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | Re-use: 1 column each, recto and verso. Recto 35 lines, verso 41 lines. Original use: likely two columns each, recto and verso, at 90 degrees to the magical re-use, of which only traces of the first column of the verso are visible. The original folios were turned 90 degrees and folded to produce the bifolios of the verso, so that the height of the sheet was the original width, and the original height was twice the width of this sheet. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | |
Collection History: | Acquired in 1896 by K. Reinhardt as part of a large number of papyri, parchment manuscripts and wooden tablets, and sold 1897 to the University of Heidelberg (Seider 1964: p. 143-4. 168). Apparently lost during the Second World War (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 307). |
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Notes/Discussion: | We thank Alin Suciu for identifying the original text (KD 20/12/2022). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich, and Adolf Grohmann. Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit, Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1934, p. 375-380, no. 131. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 161-164, no. 77. |
General: | Mößner, Tamara, and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 307-308. |
Trismegistos ID: | 99553 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 77 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 170 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | |||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | EL (24/9/2018); KD (18/12/2018); MPS (30/8/2019); KD (27/11/2019); MPS (4/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); SVS (08/09/2022); KD (23/11/2022); KD (20/12/2022); KD (3/2/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (18/1/2024) |